Lola reveals 2010 F1 car model

The first F1 team to reveal a design for the 2010 F1 season is Lola – even though it doesn’t have a place on the grid.

Lola applied for one of the three places on the 2010 F1 grid offered by the FIA earlier this year – but was turned down in favour of applications from USF1, Campos Meta 1 and Manor Motorsport.

Racecar Engineering snapped this picture of the team’s 50% scale model at a publicity event for the Silverstone 1,000km sports car race, in which Lola’s Aston Martin-powered cars are competing.

The model has already had ten days in a wind tunnel. However some parts of its design look fairly basic, such as the uncomplicated front wing.

Lola are hoping to land a place on the F1 calendar for 2011. But when they’re already this far down the road to getting a car on the track for next year, you have to wonder why they weren’t offered an entry in the first place.

The model is designated B10/30. Lola’s last, unsuccessful, attempt to compete in F1 was in 1997 with the T97/30. It failed to qualify for the Australian Grand Prix that year and was never seen again after the funding behind the project collapsed.

32 comments on “Lola reveals 2010 F1 car model”

Hmm. Producing a car without a series to race it in?
I followed the link and read this bit with interest

It has been suggested that Lola may sell the design to one of the new teams joining the F1 grid next year, “we don’t know about that, simply because nobody has approached us so we have not discussed it.”

If they sold it to two of the new teams, or even to an existing team and a new team. Would that be a ‘customer car’?

I’m reasonably sure Aston Martin don’t build their own engines. After all, Dave Richards was really pushing to get Mercedes engines for the Prodrive outfit because then they’d be able to use Mercedes engines in Aston Martin road cars.

Great article, but what I don’t understand is that the reports I got after the entry list was announced said that Lola had pulled the plug on their F1 operation completely. If that was the case, why are they apparently still forging ahead with plans for 2011?

I would also like to see the name in F1- no problem at all with the three new entires, so let’s cut the three-car Ferrari nonsnse and let a few more teams in :)

Looks like the IKEA logo!! Imagine that, IKEA F1. Bernie would sure love that for cost cutting reasons, the car arrives at each venue flat-packed, and the team can only use an allen key to assemble it…..

I’m glad they’ve done this, shows they’ve learnt from last time where they put a car together over winter and entered a year earlier than intended. This way can do lots of testing and enter prepared (not that its done Toyota much good), incase they can get an entry in 2011.